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Administrative & Regulatory Law Firms in City of Ottawa, Ontario

66 law firms.

What does an administrative lawyer in Ottawa do?

An administrative lawyer in Ottawa helps people and businesses deal with government bodies, licensing boards, and tribunals, and challenges the decisions they make. The files vary widely, from a human rights complaint to a licensing decision or a denied workplace-injury claim. Most are decided by tribunals grouped under Tribunals Ontario, which brings together the Landlord and Tenant Board, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, and the Licence Appeal Tribunal. Hearings are often held by video or phone, so a client in Kanata or Orleans can take part without travelling downtown. When a matter does reach a courtroom, it's usually the Superior Court of Justice at the Ottawa Courthouse, 161 Elgin Street. Federal boards and the Federal Court sit in Ottawa too, but those run on federal law; an Ontario administrative lawyer here works with the provincial tribunals.

How do workplace injury and licensing disputes work?

Workplace-injury claims run through the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, which decides whether an injury is covered and what benefits a worker gets. If you disagree with a final WSIB decision, you can appeal it to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal, a separate and independent body that is the last level of appeal. Licensing and permit disputes take a different route, and many land at the Licence Appeal Tribunal. At any of these tribunals, a lawyer gathers the evidence, meets the filing dates, and presents the case as expected.

How do you challenge a tribunal or government decision?

If a provincial tribunal or a government body has made a decision and you think it got the law wrong, you may be able to ask a court to review it. In Ontario that review goes to the Divisional Court, part of the Superior Court of Justice and the main forum for judicial review of government action. It looks at how the decision was made, not the facts over again. The timing is tight: an application for judicial review generally has to be started within 30 days of the decision, though a court can sometimes extend that. Because the window is short, call a lawyer as soon as a decision lands, whether you're in Nepean, Stittsville, or the core.

How do you choose an administrative law firm in Ottawa?

Start with a firm that has appeared before the tribunal your case involves, since the Landlord and Tenant Board, the Human Rights Tribunal, and the WSIAT each work differently. Ask who will handle your file day to day, how the firm charges, and whether it's comfortable taking a matter to judicial review if a tribunal decision doesn't go your way. Firms sit across the region, from downtown Ottawa out to Kanata and Orleans, so there's often one within reach.

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ALX Legal

5 lawyers

ALX Legal is a solicitor based law firm headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, with additional offices in St-Isidore and Hawkesbury. Its lawyers practice in both English and French and focus on business and corporate law, …

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Bell Baker LLP

13 lawyers · Est. 1957

Bell Baker LLP is a full-service law firm based in Ottawa, founded in 1957. The firm has about fifteen lawyers serving individuals, corporations, and institutions across the greater Eastern Ontario area, with practice…

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Bennett Jones LLP

16 lawyers

Bennett Jones LLP is a national Canadian business law firm with more than a century of history, grown from a ten-lawyer prairie town office to a firm with offices in Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vanco…

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Black & Associates

5 lawyers

Black & Associates is a civil litigation, employment, and public law firm based in Ottawa, serving businesses and individuals across Ottawa, Toronto, and Eastern Ontario. It handles commercial disputes, contract and s…

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Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

369 lawyers · Est. 1856

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes) is a national business law firm with offices in Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa, New York and London. The firm has practised business law in Canada since 1856 and ru…

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Brazeau Seller Law

24 lawyers · Est. 1989

Brazeau Seller Law is an Ottawa business law firm founded in 1989, originally designed to serve family-owned businesses and help protect and grow their wealth. Today the firm offers corporate and commercial, real esta…

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Caza Saikaley LLP

8 lawyers

Caza Saikaley LLP is an Ottawa litigation firm founded by Ronald F. Caza and Jeff G. Saikaley, whose lawyers all practise in both English and French. The firm concentrates on complex civil, commercial, and constitutio…

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Champ & Associates

6 lawyers · Est. 2009

Champ & Associates is a boutique litigation firm in downtown Ottawa focused on workplace fairness and social justice advocacy. It represents clients across Canada in employment law, labour law, and related public inte…

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Chand & Co.

6 lawyers · Est. 2016

Chand & Co. (Chand Snider LLP) is a boutique litigation firm founded in Toronto in March 2016 by Pradeep Chand and Murray Snider. It handles civil, commercial, regulatory, and criminal litigation matters from offices …

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Conlin Bedard LLP

15 lawyers

Conlin Bedard LLP is an Ottawa-based law firm focused on international trade law, federal regulatory matters, and related litigation. Its lawyers advise corporations, governments, and industry clients on customs, trad…

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Conway Baxter Wilson LLP/s.r.l.

18 lawyers · Est. 2014

Conway Baxter Wilson LLP/s.r.l. is a boutique litigation firm in Ottawa, founded in 2014. The firm focuses on commercial litigation, public law litigation, and appellate advocacy, and its size lets it take on complex,…

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Corman Feiner LLP

5 lawyers

Corman Feiner LLP is a Toronto litigation boutique founded by Sarah Corman and Jeffrey Feiner, who each spent more than a decade litigating at a major national law firm before starting the practice. The firm focuses o…

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David | Sauvé LLP

11 lawyers

David | Sauvé LLP is a bilingual boutique litigation firm with offices in Ottawa and Montréal, serving clients across Canada and North America. The firm's lawyers handle civil, commercial, and administrative litigatio…

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Diamond & Diamond Lawyers LLP is a national personal injury firm headquartered in Toronto, with offices across Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia and Nova Scotia. Its main focus is personal injury and accident claims,…

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Durant Barristers

2 lawyers

Durant Barristers is a litigation boutique based in the Ottawa area, operating throughout Ontario and elsewhere in Canada as a fully remote firm. Founded by Erin Durant, it takes a deliberately small roster of clients…

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Ecojustice

19 lawyers · Est. 1990

Ecojustice is Canada's largest environmental law charity, providing free legal representation to citizens, environmental organizations, First Nations, and other groups on environmental cases. Founded in 1990 as the Si…

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Edelson Foord Law

8 lawyers

Edelson Foord Law is an Ottawa criminal defence firm with more than 75 years of combined experience among its lawyers. The team, led by founding counsel Michael Edelson, represents clients throughout Ontario and beyon…

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EKM Law Professional Corporation is a small Ottawa firm of two lawyers who focus on workplace investigations and mediation. It handles complaints touching on human rights, harassment, national security, and access to …

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Elysium Legal

2 lawyers

Elysium Legal is a bilingual litigation boutique founded by Guillaume Sirois, with offices in Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto. The firm focuses on public and business litigation, including judicial review, constitutiona…

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Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP

19 lawyers · Est. 1863

Fasken is a leading international law firm with over 900 lawyers across eight Canadian offices plus London and Johannesburg. Its Toronto office was founded in 1863, and the firm is widely recognized for its mining, en…

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Forget Smith

6 lawyers

Forget Smith, operating as Forget & Associates Professional Corporation, is an insurance defence litigation firm with offices in Toronto and Ottawa. Its lawyers advocate for insurers on accident benefits claims, motor…

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Friedman Mansour LLP is a criminal defence firm in downtown Ottawa, serving clients in Ottawa and throughout the East Region of Ontario. Its lawyers handle the full range of criminal, quasi-criminal, and regulatory ma…

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Garwill Law

1 lawyer

Garwill Law Professional Corporation is a boutique Ottawa firm offering litigation representation, legal advice and alternative dispute resolution to companies and individuals. It appears before superior courts, tribu…

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Gibson Tanner Rabin LLP

11 lawyers · Est. 2024

Gibson Tanner Rabin LLP is a mid-sized Ottawa law firm founded in 2024 by partners Russell Gibson, Jason Rabin, and Harland Tanner, drawing on legal practices with roots in the Ottawa community spanning more than 50 y…

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